SAN JOSE, Calif. — Protesting a Facebook ban on photographs of lactating breasts, mothers are staging a "nurse in" Saturday at the site’s headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, Calif.

A simultaneous "virtual protest" will be held online, when women change their standard Facebook snapshot to a photo of themselves nursing — or, in the spirit of the holidays, an image of Madonna with child. Even an image of any mammal feeding her young will do, say organizers with the group Mothers International Lactation Campaign.

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